Lars Henning was born in Hamburg in 1976. Making his own amateur short films since 1996, he went on to work as an assistant director on film and TV productions, including Ulrich Köhler's "Bungalow" (2002) and Ayşe Polat's "En Garde" (2004). From 2006 to 2010, he studied at the Kunsthochschule für Medien (KHM) in Cologne. During that time, Henning made the award-winning shorts "Security" (2006) and "Oshima" (2009). After completing his postgraduate course at the KHM in 2011, he began to develop TV films for different production companies. He made his feature-length debut as director with the psychological drama "Kaltfront" (2016, TV), for which he also wrote the screenplay. The film screened at the 2016 Festival Max-Ophüls-Preis, garnered very positive reviews after airing on TV in May 2016, and was nominated for Best Editing at the Preis der Deutschen Akademie für Fernsehen.

Henning next helmed the drama "Zwischen den Jahren" ("End of the Season"), which premiered at the 2017 Berlin IFF. The film about a convicted murderer who tries to start a new life after being released from prison, only to be hunted by the revenge-bent husband and father of his victims, was released in theatres in March 2017.